[Imports] City of Seattle imports

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Jeff Meyer <jeff at gwhat.org> wrote:
> All -
>
> The city of Seattle has recently granted permission to use data found at
> data.seattle.gov in OpenStreetMap.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#City_of_Seattle.2C_Washington
>
> A group of Seattle OSM'ers (led by Cliff Snow) are getting together to
> discuss the methods for importing and double-checking the information.
> http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Seattle/events/93524692/


> The current plan is to focus on addresses and building outlines.
> Sources are currently suggested to be tagged as:
> source:addr=data.seattle.gov
> source:path=data.seattle.gov
> so as to accomodate other sourcing information for those points and ways, as
> appropriate.

source tags are not really appropriate for indivdual elements, but
should be on the changeset, but more importantly, the specific
datasets should be referenced, as data.seattle.gov doesn't talk about
the version of the data, or even what dataset it is.

> Data has been converted from shape to osm using pnorman's ogr2osm python
> scripts and some translation instructions Cliff has put together.

Where is the source of your transformation scripts?
Where are the specific data files you're transforming?
How will you handle object conflation?

> More news to follow. Please advise of any concerns.

I have many concerns, some of which are discussed above, but more
generally, you seem to not have discussed this with the greater OSM
community, including the talk-us list.

Imports are very sensitive and should not be taken without an
incredible amount of thought and planning, and a lot of community
involvement.

- Serge